A tournament weekend has a lot of matches and usually one camera. Streaming each match as its own broadcast means a new link for every game, and viewers having to hunt for it. A tournament stream is one broadcast for the whole event. You go live once, and the scoreboard on screen moves from match to match as the day goes on.

This guide is for tournament organisers. If you only want to stream a single match, start with How to Stream a Match Live.

Starting the Tournament Stream

Open your tournament and go to the admin tab. Tap Go Live, the card that says One live stream for the whole tournament, phone or pro camera. Only the tournament owner and admins see it.

Skipper opens Stream Setup and asks how you want to stream:

• From This Device uses your phone as the camera. Skipper adds the scoreboard and sends the broadcast to YouTube.
• Professional is for a real camera and software like OBS or vMix. Skipper gives you a link for the scoreboard overlay, and you drop it into your software as a browser source.

From there the steps match a single-match stream: pick your channel, set a title and privacy, tap Start Preview, then GO LIVE. The tournament name is filled in as the title for you.

Choosing Which Match the Overlay Shows

The overlay needs to know which match to put on screen. You have two ways to decide.

Let it follow the live match

This is the easy one. Choose the Auto row at the top of the list. Skipper switches the scoreboard to whichever match is in progress. When one game ends and the next starts, the overlay moves across by itself. You do not touch anything between matches.

Pin a match yourself

On the phone, tap the Matches button on the stream screen. A list called Select Active Match opens, with matches grouped as Live, Upcoming and Just finished. You can search by team name. Tap a match and the overlay switches to it straight away, without stopping the broadcast. The scores and the highlight clips are tagged to that match from then on.

On the Professional route the same choice sits on a Now showing row. Tap it to open Match to show. There you pick a match, or choose Whatever is live to follow the match in progress.

Pinning a match pauses Auto. Skipper tells you so: the button on the stream screen changes to Auto paused, and the list explains that Auto resumes when your pinned match finishes. If you want it back sooner, open the list and tap the Auto row to resume now.

Between Matches

A gap between games should not leave a dead screen. When no match is live, or when more than one is live at once, the overlay shows a tournament banner card instead of a score. On the phone you can also choose this yourself with the Intermission / Break row in the match list, which is handy for lunch, rain or a long changeover. Pick a match again when play resumes.

Stream Ads

If your tournament has sponsors, you can play short video ads during the stream. Go back to Manage Tournament (the gear icon) and open Stream ads, which says Pick videos to play at breaks.

• Tap Add your first ad. After that, use the + at the top to add more. You can have up to eight ads.
• Pick a video from your phone. It should be landscape, MP4 or MOV, up to 60 seconds and 100 MB.
• Skipper asks you to Name this ad. Type a title, such as the sponsor's name, and tap Upload.
• Each ad shows a small status tag. Checking means Skipper is still looking at the video, Ready means it will play, and Rejected means the file did not pass and you should try another.

Ads play on their own. By default there is one at each over break and each wicket, and they loop during the innings break. The Ad frequency row lets you change that:

• Between overs can be Off, every over, or every 2, 3 or 5 overs.
• Minimum gap keeps ads from coming too close together: 30 seconds, 1 minute, 2 minutes or 5 minutes.
• Play an ad on a wicket is a switch you can turn off.

You can remove an ad you no longer want, and drag the rest into the order you prefer.

Stream History

After the event, tap Stream history at the bottom of the Stream Setup screen. It lists which matches went out on the stream, whether they were on the phone camera or the overlay route, and when. It helps when a sponsor asks exactly which games were on air.

A Quick Checklist

• Go live a few minutes before the first ball so you can check the picture and sound.
• Leave it on Auto unless you have a reason to pin a match.
• Upload sponsor ads the day before, so they have time to pass the check.
• Keep a charger and a second phone for scoring close at hand. The phone that is filming should not also be the one scoring.